ESRI Research Seminar and Events Programme 2011-2012

International Conference – AECRICT 2012
Addressing Educational Challenges: the role of ICT
2nd - 5th July 2012
Education systems around the world face many challenges. Educators, parents and administrators frequently look to ICT for possible solutions but the complexity of most social and technical settings makes it difficult to determine appropriate courses of action. This conference will provide an opportunity to explore how ICT can be used successfully to address some of the significant challenges that are faced by education systems.

Mainstreaming Co-operation: an alternative for the 21st century?
3rd - 5th July 2012
Call for papers & Presentations
The Co-operative College, Manchester Metropolitan University, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool University, Edge Hill University and the University of Central Lancashire are organising this major interdisciplinary conference, with support from the Co-operative. It will be of interest to co-operative members and employees, public sector professionals, the voluntary sector, community activists and educationalists as well as researchers and academics.

Space, Place and Social Justice in Education
Friday 13th July, 2012
This one day international research seminar, which is jointly sponsored by the Education and Social Research Institute (ESRI) at Manchester Metropolitan University, the European Education Research Association (EERA), the British Education Research Association (BERA) and the journal Ethnography and Education, will bring together a multi-disciplinary audience interested in exploring the issues of space, place and social justice in education. Participants will have an opportunity to hear internationally acclaimed keynote speakers whose work is concerned with these questions and to take part in dialogue and discussion around presented papers. Those offering papers will have their contributions considered for publication in a book-length edited collection to follow on from the event. The event will be of particular interest to ethnographers and geographers of education.

Childhood Seminar Series Alternative Discourses of Childhood

    Seminar 1 - (De)territorialising the field - the focus and impact of government policy, educational research and practice.
    23rd June 2011 @ Manchester Metropolitan University
    Seminar 2 - Entangling the issues - theorising the issues of the child today.
    21st October 2011 @ Birbeck College, London
    Seminar 3 - Historical legacies: interdisciplinary concepts of objects, personhood and identity.
    18th January 2012 @ V&A Museum of Childhood
    Seminar 4 - Interdisciplinary ethical challenges - the 'state' of the society and world in which children are growing up.
    29th March 2012 @ University of Sheffield

Summer Institute in Qualitative Research
Summer 2013
We will be taking a break in 2012, but will be back with another internatioanl line-up in 2013.

Seminars Spring Term 2012

All seminars take place at the Didsbury Campus on a Wednesday from 4.00 to 5.30 pm. Tea and coffee will be provided. Conversations will continue in The Didsbury afterwards – all welcome.

25 January in Behrens 2.8
Becky Francis - Director of Education, RSA
Reinvigorating the dialogue on principles for socially-just schooling

8 February in Simon 0.03
Angelo Benozzo - University of Valle d’Aosta and Huw Bell - MMU
Gay man seeks straight man for honest conversation about coming out at work

22 February in Simon 0.03
Steve Higgins - Durham University
SynergyNet: Researching digital technologies for education

29 February in Behrens 0.1
Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole - MMU
The violence of disablism: schools, kids and violence

7 March in Simon 0.03
Julie Allan - Stirling University
Difference in policy and politics

Seminars Autumn Term 2011

October 19th:
Irene Malcolm - University of Dundee
Professional learning in the software localisation industry: privileging knowledge and the problem of gender in digital working.

October 20th:
Diana Masny - University of Ottawa, Canada
Rhizoanalysis: A transdisciplinary approach to literacies research.

October 26th:
Prof Marjorie Mayo - Goldsmiths, University of London
Dr Carol Packham - Manchester Metropolitan University
Zoraida Mendiwelso-Bendek - University of Lincoln
Taking Part? Exploring resilience in civil society and third sector organisations. Interim findings of the ESRC Capacity Building Cluster (CBC) for Active Citizenship and Community Empowerment.

November 2nd:
Karen Nairn - University of Otago, New Zealand
The emotional geographies of New Zealand’s neoliberal school reforms: Spaces of refuge and containment.

November 16th:
John Pryor - University of Sussex
Jumping the lights- more than feedback.

November 30th:
James Conroy - University of Glasgow
Caught in the Middle: Childhood, Education and Adult Responsibility.